Dueling Senate, House crackdowns on Missouri public health officials emerge John Haughey, The Center Square contributing © Provided by Washington Examiner
The Missouri House on Monday refused to endorse an avalanche of Senate amendments restricting local public health officials’ emergency powers and banning “vaccine passports” on an unrelated bill it had already adopted.
The House Monday kicked House Bill 271 back in a message to the Senate, “House Refuses to Adopt, Requests Senate to Recede or Grant Conference” in reference to a raft of 30 amendments, SS#2, the Senate added to the bill when it passed 25-6 on April 28.
The message calls for a conference committee between the chambers to synthesize the amended HB 271 with another House-adopted bill limiting local public health officials’ authority before the session adjourns May 14.
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Missouri Senators, K-12 community work to navigate underperforming school problems
The coronavirus pandemic’s increased challenges in education have fueled the Missouri Legislature’s efforts this session to make school choice measures a priority. Debate about these bills have been very heated at times.
Photo courtesy of Tim Bommel, House Communications
On Tuesday, the Missouri Senate Education Committee and representatives of the state’s K-12 public education world instead had a heart-to-heart about ways to address academic achievement levels within public schools. Their discussion centered around a legislative bill that could close some underperforming K-12 public schools in Missouri.
The proposal, sponsored by Sen. Cindy O’Laughlin, R-Shelbina, involves any public school performing within the bottom five percent of schools for more than three years over a five-year period. Districts would be required to close these schools and transfer students to a higher-performing on